What 🥯 means
Usually, someone wants a bagel. This breakfast emoji can stand for your order; a schmear is a spread of cream cheese.
As of 2026, 🥯 also carries tennis slang: a “bagel” is a set where one player wins six games and the other wins none. Look for a match reference or 🎾 before reading it as a score.
Casual and food-first.
Don't assume the tennis reading without tennis context.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIn breakfast plans
A bagel order, craving, or bakery stop.
Beside 🎾 or a match score
A tennis set won or lost 6–0.
Combination ideas
2Bagel-and-coffee breakfast.
A 6–0 tennis set; context tells you who won.
Worth knowing
- Apple added cream cheese to its plain bagel artwork in 2018 after complaints. The bagel got its spread.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🥯 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🥯
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “bagel”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “bagel”.
Chat apps
:bagel:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🥯Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🥯
HTML hex
🥯
CSS content
content: "\1F96F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A5%AF
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.